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2020

• ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ distribution and diversity in Scotland and the characterisation of novel haplotypes from Craspedolepta spp. (Psyllidae: Aphalaridae). (2020) Sumner-Kalkun, J.C., Highet, F., Arnsdorf, Y.M. et al. Sci Rep 10, 16567 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73382-9
• Cherry picking by pseudomonads: After a century of research on canker, genomics provides insights into the evolution of pathogenicity towards stone fruits. (2020) Hulin MT, Jackson RW, Harrison RJ, Mansfield JW. Plant Pathol. 2020; 69: 962–978. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13189
• Common bacterial blight of bean: a model of seed transmission and pathological convergence. (2021) Chen NWG, Ruh M, Darrasse A, Foucher J, Briand M, Costa J, Studholme DJ… Jacques MA. Molecular Plant Pathology 22: 1464-1480.
• Trends in Molecular Diagnosis and Diversity Studies for Phytosanitary Regulated Xanthomonas. (2021) Catara V, Cubero J, Pothier JF, Bosis E, Bragard C, Đermić E, Holeva MC… Costa J. Microorganisms. 9:862.

2022

• Temperate Oak Declines: Biotic and abiotic predisposition drivers. (2022) Sandra Denman, Nathan Brown, Elena Vanguelova, Bridget Crampton (2022). In Forest Microbiology, Fred O. Asiegbu & Andriy Kovalchuk (eds). Academic Press, Pages 239-263, ISBN 9780323850421 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85042-1.00020-3
• Rational Design of a Polyurethane Foam (2022). Wright HC, Cameron DD, Ryan AJ. Polymers. 14, 5111. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14235111
• FoamPi: An open-source raspberry Pi based apparatus for monitoring polyurethane foam reactions. (2022) Wright HC, Cameron DD, Ryan AJ. HardwareX. Volume 12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00365
• First report of black rot caused by Xanthomonas nasturtii on watercress in Spain and Portugal. (2022) Lascelles D, Roberts M, Cruz L, Cruz J, Studholme D, Harrison J, Greer S… Vicente J. New Disease Reports. 46: e12134.

2023

• Free and open-source software for object detection, size, and colour determination for use in plant phenotyping. (2023) Wright HC, Lawrence FA, Ryan AJ, Cameron DD. Plant Methods. Nov;19(1):126. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-023-01103-0
• Chemical cues from beetle larvae trigger proliferation and virulence of a plant pathogen. (2023) Marine C. Cambon, Gareth Thomas, John C Caulfield, Michael Crampton, James M Doonan, Usman Hussain, Sandra Denman, Jozsef Vuts, James E McDonald doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.21.568124
• Balancing the scales: Impact of irrigation and pathogen burden on potato blackleg disease and soil microbial communities (2023) Ciara Keating, Elizabeth Kilbride, Mark A. Stalham, Charlotte Nellist, Joel Milner, Sonia Humphris, Ian Toth, Barbara K. Mable, Umer Zeeshan Ijaz. bioRxiv 2023.07.13.548922; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.13.548922
• Genomic and functional analysis of phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer in Pseudomonas syringae on the plant surface. (2023) Hulin, M.T., Rabiey, M., Zeng, Z., Vadillo Dieguez, A., Bellamy, S., Swift, P., Mansfield, J.W., Jackson, R.W. and Harrison, R.J. (2023), New Phytol, 237: 959-973. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18573
• The current status, challenges, and future perspectives for managing diseases of brassicas. (2023) Greer SF, Surendran A, Grant M, Lillywhite R. Front Microbiol. 2023; 14:1209258.
• Draft genome sequences for ten strains of Xanthomonas species that have phylogenomic importance. (2023) Harrison J, Hussain RMF, Greer SF, Ntoukakis V, Aspin A, Vicente JG, Grant M… Studholme DJ. Access Microbiology. 5: acmi000532.v3.
• First identification of Xanthomonas nasturtii as the cause of black rot of watercress in Hawaii. (2023). Vicente J, McHugh J, Bryning A, Carroll S, Harrison J, Studholme D, Plant Disease. 10.1094/PDIS-05-22-1043-PDN.
• Phylogenomic Analysis Supports the Transfer of 20 Pathovars from Xanthomonas campestris into Xanthomonas euvesicatoria. (2023) Harrison J, Hussain R, Aspin A, Grant M, Vicente J, Studholme D. Taxonomy. 3: 29-45.
• The most polyphagous insect herbivore? Host plant associations of the Meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (L.). (2023) Thompson V, Harkin C, Stewart AJA, PLoS ONE 18(10):e0291734. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291734

2024

• How to recognise a healthy forest: Perspectives from private forest managers in Britain. (2024) Seumas Bates, Gillian Petrokofsky, Gabriel Hemery, Norman Dandy. Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 158, 2024, 103120, ISSN 1389-9341, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103120
• Genetic dissection of the tissue-specific roles of type III effectors and phytotoxins in the pathogenicity of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae to cherry (2024) Andrea Vadillo-Dieguez, Ziyue Zeng, John W. Mansfield, Nastasiya F. Grinberg, Samantha C. Lynn, Adam Gregg, John Connell, Richard J. Harrison, Robert W. Jackson, Michelle T. Hulin. bioRxiv 2024.02.06.578989; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.06.578989
• Managing Trees Species of High Social and Cultural Value: Forest Manager Attitudes towards Pest and Disease Risks to Oak in Britain (2024) O’Brien, L.; Marzano, M.; Dandy, N.; Bates, S.; Hemery, G.; Petrokofsky, G.; Dunn, M.; Forster, J. Forests, 15, 1695. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15101695
• Genome sequence data for 61 isolates of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris from brassica crops in Serbia. (2024) Access Microbiology. Popović Milovanović T, Greer S, Iličić R, Jelušić A, Brown D, Hussain M, Harrison J. Studholme D. In press (accepted).
• The potential of bacteriocins and bacteriophages to control bacterial disease of crops with a focus on Xanthomonas spp. (2024)  Greer, S. F., Rabiey, M., Studholme, D. J., and Grant, M. J. R. Soc. N. Z. 1–25.
• Two novel Raoultella species associated with bleeding cankers of broadleaf hosts, Raoultella scottia sp. nov. and Raoultella lignicola sp. nov. (2024) Brady, C., Crampton, B., Kaur, S., Maddock, D., Kile, H., Arnold, D., Denman, S. Frontiers in Microbiology
• Phage biocontrol success of bacterial wilt depends on synergistic interactions with resident rhizosphere microbiota (2024) Ortega, S.F., Fields, B., Rojas, D.N., Mikonranta, L., Holmes, M., Harper, A.L., Friman, V-P., Microbial Bitechology, Volume 17, Issue 11. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70049
• The Epidemiology and Management of Ralstonia solanacearum and Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum in Central and Northern Europe (2024) Gomez, K.C., Rojas, D.N., James, S.A., Ortega, S.F, Harper, A.L., Friman, V-L., Plant Health Cases, phcs20240028 https://doi.org/10.1079/planthealthcases.2024.0028

2025

• Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) clamps reduce amplification of host chloroplast and mitochondria rRNA gene sequences and increase detected diversity in 16S rRNA gene profiling analysis of oak-associated microbiota. (2025) Hussain, U., Downie, J., Ellison, A. et al. Environmental Microbiome 20, 14.
• Assembly and annotation of Solanum dulcamara and Solanum nigrum plant genomes, two nightshades with contrasting susceptibilities to Ralstonia solanacearum. (2025) Ortega, S.F., James, S., Gilbert, L., Hogg, K., Stevens, H., Daff, J., Friman, V-P., Harper, A.L.  G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Volume 15, Issue 7, jkaf119, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf119
• The role of volatile cues in mediating tree host-bacteria-insect interactions in acute oak decline. (2025), Thomas, G.A., et al., Current Biology.

2026

• Microbial communities in semi-mature oak trees are resilient to drought, nutrient limitation, and pathogen challenge. Hussain, U., et al. (2026) Cell Host and Microbe 34, 344–358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2026.01.009
• Genomic Surveillance of Epiphytic Pseudomonas syringae Highlights Shared Reservoirs and Cross-Habitat Threats to Cherry Orchards and Nearby Woodland Plants. (2026) Zeng, Z., J. W.Mansfield, A.Vadillo-Dieguez, et al. Molecular Plant Pathology 27, no. 2: e70208. https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.70208.